You can even store the password database on the cloud if you wanted...
Why is this a good idea?
What's wrong in keep database on cloud? As long as you are using strong password along with key file, there is remote chance that someone would be able to break-in your database.
I'm somewhat skeptical. I sell an iOS app at the usual App Store rock bottom prices. 90+% of my downloads are still attributed to pirates. I can't really drop the price any lower without giving it away for free. Pirates are going to pirate no matter what the cost is.
It would be more interesting to find what would your revenue be if you double the price of your app. My guess is that it will dip in spite of higher price.
There was probably some guy like you shaking his head thirty years ago. "Mice? Sorry, I tried one and it's totally useless. You always have to take your hand off the keyboard to do anything at all."
Most probably spoken by someone who suffers from RSI - then bane of long time computer users. Mouse is the first thing you should stop using to avoid getting RSI.
How many of those "pirates" live in places where $20 is a more than a whole day's wage?
Probably not many. Since they also probably won't have an internet connection or a PC in the first place. Think about it.
In India, for $20 you can easily get 2 months of unlimited internet, and for vast majority of population, $20 is more than a whole day's wage. Almost everyone pirates software here because most of it is not affordable even for upper middle class family.
Velu Annamalai, the source of this spin on Gandhi is an intellectual heir to Ambedkar and the liberation of Dalits movement. Velu Annamalai was Indian/Tamil but moved to New Orleans. I think their is some truth to what Annamalai said about Gandhi but it is also an exaggeration and takes Gandhi's life out of context. Gandhi was working within the South African dynamic. Gandhi in 1940 was not the same person that Gandhi in 1904 was.
Personally, I have read biographies of Gandhi** by multiple authors and I have read history of India also by multiple authors, and in my opinion, the article is a propaganda for Dalits against Gandhi.
** Gandhi is the correct spelling. Ghandi is plain wrong.
There are tools available to find out whether GPL / OpenSource code is used in your codebase. Normally, such tools have a huge repository which is continuously updated.
I had seen a demo of one such tool few months back and I was really impressed. Obviously, the checking takes long time because of the size of the repository to compare with.
Your sarcasm might be true for gaming, but Linux rules on scientific / number crunching applications, and that is what Tesla is built for. From Tesla Tech Specs, Windows XP is not even supported on the higher end S870 model.
Now if you know arcane keyboard shortcuts you can use them to move the window to reveal the offscreen button
How is Alt+Mouse drag combination an "arcane keyboard shortcut"? Don't tell me that an average user will not know that shortcut. It is just like any other "arcane" shortcut (like Alt+Tab) in Windows. If a user is using Ubuntu for long enough time, he/she will know the shortcut - regardless of the skill levels.
Of course, rarely do I find myself typing anything other than the domain and TLD (i.e. slashdot.org, mail.google.com, woot.com) so this has really become a non-issue.
Better still - I just type sitename and press Ctrl+Enter and browser automatically adds "www." and ".com". For ".org", I just need to press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. It is a great help, and works in Firefox, Chrome and IE, at least.
I am not sure whether piracy is a criminal offense or not in Japan, but I do know that if you go to watch a movie in Tokyo, you almost always get the advertisement on piracy before movie starts. In the ad, a guy with a video camera for his head is sitting in a movie hall, and shooting the movie. Few shots later, police comes in and shoots the camera-head guy; blood is splashed on the screen.
Sheesh.. At least get your spelling right - it's Gandhi and not Ghandi.
And Gandhi's ideal was non-cooperation with tyrannical regime and *not* pacifism.
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You can even store the password database on the cloud if you wanted...
Why is this a good idea?
What's wrong in keep database on cloud? As long as you are using strong password along with key file, there is remote chance that someone would be able to break-in your database.
I keep it on a USB drive.
Better still, I keep my DB on Dropbox, so it is available anywhere I go - no need to carry USB pen drive.
I'm somewhat skeptical. I sell an iOS app at the usual App Store rock bottom prices. 90+% of my downloads are still attributed to pirates. I can't really drop the price any lower without giving it away for free. Pirates are going to pirate no matter what the cost is.
It would be more interesting to find what would your revenue be if you double the price of your app. My guess is that it will dip in spite of higher price.
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There was probably some guy like you shaking his head thirty years ago. "Mice? Sorry, I tried one and it's totally useless. You always have to take your hand off the keyboard to do anything at all."
Most probably spoken by someone who suffers from RSI - then bane of long time computer users. Mouse is the first thing you should stop using to avoid getting RSI.
How many of those "pirates" live in places where $20 is a more than a whole day's wage?
Probably not many. Since they also probably won't have an internet connection or a PC in the first place. Think about it.
In India, for $20 you can easily get 2 months of unlimited internet, and for vast majority of population, $20 is more than a whole day's wage. Almost everyone pirates software here because most of it is not affordable even for upper middle class family.
Velu Annamalai, the source of this spin on Gandhi is an intellectual heir to Ambedkar and the liberation of Dalits movement. Velu Annamalai was Indian/Tamil but moved to New Orleans. I think their is some truth to what Annamalai said about Gandhi but it is also an exaggeration and takes Gandhi's life out of context. Gandhi was working within the South African dynamic. Gandhi in 1940 was not the same person that Gandhi in 1904 was.
Personally, I have read biographies of Gandhi** by multiple authors and I have read history of India also by multiple authors, and in my opinion, the article is a propaganda for Dalits against Gandhi.
** Gandhi is the correct spelling. Ghandi is plain wrong.
The headline of the article has a totally random trailing apostrophe after "founders". Why?
Headline is correct. Apostrophe for plural words should be after the word is over.
Why is this modded funny, and not insightful?
Please use correct spelling - Gandhi.
Parasitic drag is a function of velocity squared
Airlines should reduce velocity by 10% - and voila - no drag (10^2 = 100).
That "different alphabet" is Gujarati language, and it is my mother tongue, and I can tell you that "Ghandi" is plain wrong.
Please, please, please, spell "Gandhi" correctly. I don't know where this wrong "Ghandi" spelling came from, but I see it more often here than not.
There are tools available to find out whether GPL / OpenSource code is used in your codebase. Normally, such tools have a huge repository which is continuously updated. I had seen a demo of one such tool few months back and I was really impressed. Obviously, the checking takes long time because of the size of the repository to compare with.
The problem is, nobody is paying anyone for the news today.
Advertisers are already paying for free news for everyone. And this has been the main source of revenue for newspapers too.
Your sarcasm might be true for gaming, but Linux rules on scientific / number crunching applications, and that is what Tesla is built for. From Tesla Tech Specs, Windows XP is not even supported on the higher end S870 model.
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Now if you know arcane keyboard shortcuts you can use them to move the window to reveal the offscreen button
How is Alt+Mouse drag combination an "arcane keyboard shortcut"? Don't tell me that an average user will not know that shortcut. It is just like any other "arcane" shortcut (like Alt+Tab) in Windows. If a user is using Ubuntu for long enough time, he/she will know the shortcut - regardless of the skill levels.
Earth has moved one step nearer to the Sun?
Without motivating litigants and lawyers with potential rewards, the powerful would be much freer to abuse the weak.
If I had mod points, I would mod you up.
Of course, rarely do I find myself typing anything other than the domain and TLD (i.e. slashdot.org, mail.google.com, woot.com) so this has really become a non-issue.
Better still - I just type sitename and press Ctrl+Enter and browser automatically adds "www." and ".com". For ".org", I just need to press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. It is a great help, and works in Firefox, Chrome and IE, at least.
I am not sure whether piracy is a criminal offense or not in Japan, but I do know that if you go to watch a movie in Tokyo, you almost always get the advertisement on piracy before movie starts. In the ad, a guy with a video camera for his head is sitting in a movie hall, and shooting the movie. Few shots later, police comes in and shoots the camera-head guy; blood is splashed on the screen.
Sheesh.. At least get your spelling right - it's Gandhi and not Ghandi. And Gandhi's ideal was non-cooperation with tyrannical regime and *not* pacifism.
This technology is already patented by The Daily Prophet.
Agreed. Unless you have a job, how are you going to fix your credit?